As part of the top-to-bottom review, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen commissioned the University of California to evaluate 3 voting systems used in the state of California. The study involves four components: accessibility review, red team testing, source code review, and document review. Reports from the first three components are now available. The document review reports are expected to be released later.

ACCURATE PI Dan Wallach testified before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on February 7. His testimony is now online. Also of interest to readers of this site, Princeton professor Ed Felten recently testified before the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Elections. In his blog, he discusses both his main testimony and supplemental testimony.

David Wagner (an ACCURATE member) recently testified before the US House of Representatives at a hearing of the Elections Subcommittee of the Committee on House Administration. Wagner’s written testimony addresses the issue of public disclosure of voting system source code.

An independent team of experts, led by Florida State University, released a report on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines used in Sarasota County, Florida during the contested Congressional District 13 race last November. The FSU report was commissioned by the Florida State Division of Elections. The report’s authors included ACCURATE PI David Wagner.

We are currently accepting paper submissions for the The 2nd EVT Workshop to be held Monday, August 6, 2007, co-located with the 16th USENIX Security Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information please visit the CFP site.